Friday, November 16, 2012

Paul Mirengoff asks a good question about the idea of Susan Rice being the Secretary of State. If she was duped about the intelligence briefing she supposedly relied on when she went on the Sunday shows after the Benghazi attacks even though other parts of the administration knew and the President even spoke about the attacks as terrorism, doesn't that indicate that she's a woman who doesn't penetrate further than her talking points? Is that the quality we're looking for in a Secretary of State?

Of course, Susan Rice has a miserable record at the United Nations. But is that really her fault or does the blame lie with Obama? Is she a no show at important meetings because that is what Obama wants? He seems to think she's doing wonderfully. Maybe he wants to U.S. absent at emergency Security Council meetings or during crucial votes.

Kirsten Powers blasts Obama for his "silly, sexist defense" of Susan Rice. Too bad he wasn't as forceful in protecting a male ambassador in Libya. And as Powers points out, Obama said that she "had nothing to do with Benghazi." so why did they send her out there to talk to the American people about it?

"But it's too useful of a myth for Democrats so it will remain. I know that my students all believe it's true."

They also believe public schools teachers are underpaid overworked cloistered eight hours a day in little red school houses.

In my daughter's high tech firm, there are lots of women groups support, paid for by the employer. There are conferences for women only. Men are left there to fend for themselves. A twenty-something man is as clueless as a twenty-something woman, but he ploughs on on his own, wide-eyed, doesn't know how to get those promotions.

A stay-at-home mom is proud of her husband who brings home the bacon, a stay-at-home dad is ashamed of himself to rely on his wife's support.